define bourgeois
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bourgeois pl. bourgeois bourgeois. noun. 1  A person belonging to the middle class. 2  A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
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- The social class of owners of the means of production in industrial societies, whose primary purpose is to make profits. Capitalists. The class of owners of the means of production in industrial societies whose primary purpose is to make profits.
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aristocracy aristocracy definition A privileged, primarily hereditary ruling class, or a form of government controlled by such an elite. Note: Traditionally, the disproportionate concentration of wealth, social status, and political influence in the aristocracy has been resented by the middle class and lower class.
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communism noun. or Communism /ˈkɑːmjəˌnɪzəm/. Learner's definition of COMMUNISM. [noncount]. : a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property — compare capitalism, socialism.
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- The real bourgeoisie were more middle class than new money, but the divide that separated the serfs from the bourgeoisie, nobility, clergy and royals was very large. In pre-revolutionary France, the bourgeoisie were the lawyers and accountants, working for the aristocracy, clergy and monarch.
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Bourgeoisie The term bourgeois arose in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town. Its overtones became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status.
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Proletariat Part of a series on. The proletariat (/ˌproʊlɪˈtɛəriːət/ from Latin proletarius) is a term for the class of wage-earners, in a capitalist society, whose only possession of significant material value is their labor-power (their ability to work); a member of such a class is a proletarian. 1 Usage in the Constitution of the Roman Republic.
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- Marxism definition The doctrines of Karl Marx and his associate Friedrich Engels on economics, politics, and society. They include the notion of economic determinism — that political and social structures are determined by the economic conditions of people.
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Difference Between Bourgeois and Proletariat To describe two different classes of people in a society the words Bourgeois and proletariat have been used by philosophers and pundits of political science. Many people find difficult to appreciate the differences between these two classes.
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- peasant definition A farmer or agricultural worker of low status. The word is applied chiefly to agricultural workers in Asia, Europe, and South America, who generally adhere to traditional agricultural practices and have little social mobility or freedom.
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affluent affluent - having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; an affluent banker; a speculator flush with cash; not merely rich but loaded; moneyed aristocrats; wealthy corporations.
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- bourgeois, burgher, member of the middle class (historical) burgher, freeman, usually richer and/or more influential than a peasant/worker but poorer and/or less influential than a nobleman Declension Declension of Bürger
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DEFINITION of 'Marxism' Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes, specifically between the bourgeoisie (capitalists) and proletariat (workers), defines the development of the state, and that the bourgeoisie seek to gain control of the factors of production from the masses.. social, political and economic philosophy that examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity and economic development.
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Who were the Bourgeoisie? Marxism defines the bourgeoisie as the social class that owns the means of production in a capitalist society. Marxism views the group as emerging from the wealthy urban classes in pre- and early capitalist societies.
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Working class The working class (also labouring class and proletariat) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and in skilled, industrial work.
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What is the difference between the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat? In contemporary (capitalist) societies, the term bourgeoisie can refer to middle, upper middle, and/or upper classes, and/or their lifestyle and values. The proletariat (from Latin proletarius, a citizen of the lowest class) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. Originally it was identified as those people who had no wealth other than their sons.
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bourgeoisie Marxism postulates a fundamental conflict between the interests of the bourgeoisie and those of the propertyless workers, the proletariat. Note: “Bourgeois” may also refer to mediocre taste or to the flashy display of wealth by the nouveau riche.
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Bourgeois, bourgeoisie Bourgeois is usually an adjective, and it’s usually negative or at least slightly scornful—for example: The liberals of San Francisco want to build a bourgeois republic wherein practically perfect people live aesthetic, ethical lives.
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Peasants A peasant, from 15th century French paisant, païsant From latin, pagus country, district is someone who lives in the country either working for others, or more, specifically owning or renting and working by his own labour a small plot of. ground
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class class definition A group of people sharing the same social, economic, or occupational status. The term class usually implies a social and economic hierarchy, in which those of higher class standing have greater status, privilege, prestige, and authority.
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- Definition of Communism: Marx's theoretical classless utopian society. The Marxian definition of Communism involves the theoretical, perfect, classless society with common ownership of all economic means of production..
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bourgeois Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bourgeois / ˈbʊəʒwɑː; bʊəˈʒwɑː / often derogatory n (pl-geois) a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class
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- bourgeois collectively or as a class, the French middle class, 1707; also extended to other nationalities. 1. People who, in the capitalist system, own the means of production, i.e. those things which are used to produce commodities, such as factories, machinery, and finance.
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- Marxism-the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism.
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- The definition of a peasant is a country person, a farmer or a crude person. 1  An example of a peasant is a person who grows vegetables for a living. 2  An example of a peasant is someone who constantly uses foul language.
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- Definition of Marxism. Marxism is a political, social, and economic philosophy derived from the work of the 19th-century historians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.It views human history as a struggle between social classes and asserts that capitalism is inherently exploitative.efinition of Marxism. Marxism is a political, social, and economic philosophy derived from the work of the 19th-century historians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.